6 David again gathered all the best troops in Isra'Al, 30,000 men. 2 Then David and all the men with him set out for Baʹal·e-juʹdah to bring up from there the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl}, before which people call on the name of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} of armies, who sits enthroned above the cherubs. 3 However, they placed the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl} on a new wagon to transport it from the house of A·binʹa·dab, which was on the hill; and Uzʹzah and A·hiʹo, the sons of A·binʹa·dab, were leading the new wagon.
4 So they transported the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl} from A·binʹa·dab’s house on the hill, and A·hiʹo was walking ahead of the Ark. 5 David and all the house of Isra'Al were celebrating before Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} with all sorts of juniper-wood instruments, harps, other stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals. 6 But when they came to the threshing floor of Naʹcon, Uzʹzah thrust his hand out to the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl} and grabbed hold of it, for the cattle nearly upset it. 7 At that Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s anger blazed against Uzʹzah, and the true Al {pre. Ahl} struck him down there for his irreverent act, and he died there beside the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl}. 8 But David became angry because Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s wrath had broken through against Uzʹzah; and that place has been called Peʹrez-uzʹzah down to this day. 9 So David became fearful of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} on that day and said: “How can the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} come to me?” 10 David was not willing to bring the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} to where he was in the City of David. Instead, David had it taken to the house of Oʹbed-eʹdom the Gitʹtite.
11 The Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} remained at the house of Oʹbed-eʹdom the Gitʹtite for three months, and Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} kept blessing Oʹbed-eʹdom and all his household. 12 The report was made to King David: “Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} has blessed the house of Oʹbed-eʹdom and all that belongs to him because of the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl}.” So David went to bring the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl} from the house of Oʹbed-eʹdom up to the City of David with rejoicing. 13 When the carriers of the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} had marched six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened animal.
14 David was dancing around before Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} with all his might; all the while David wore a linen ephʹod. 15 David and all the house of Isra'Al were bringing up the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} with joyful shouting and with the sound of the horn. 16 But when the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} came into the City of David, Saul’s daughter Miʹchal looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing around before Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}; and she began to despise him in her heart. 17 So they brought the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} in and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered up burnt offerings and communion sacrifices before Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}. 18 When David finished offering up the burnt offerings and the communion sacrifices, he blessed the people in the name of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} of armies. 19 Further, he distributed to all the people, to the whole multitude of Isra'Al, to each man and woman, a ring-shaped loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake, and then all the people left, each to his own house.
20 When David returned to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Miʹchal came out to meet him. She said: “How glorious the king of Isra'Al made himself when he uncovered himself today before the eyes of the slave girls of his servants, just as an empty-headed man openly uncovers himself!” 21 At this David said to Miʹchal: “My celebration was before Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, who chose me rather than your father and all his household and who appointed me as leader over Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s people, Isra'Al. Therefore, I will celebrate before Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, 22 and I will humble myself even more than this and become low even in my own eyes. But by the slave girls whom you mentioned, I will be glorified.” 23 So Saul’s daughter Miʹchal had no children down to the day of her death.